ANDREW SULLIVAN: I think Trump might win

Political commentator and New York magazine editor Andrew
Sullivan is more bullish than many other experts of Donald
Trump's chances this November.

Sullivan
told Slate's Jacob Weisberg that he thinks Trump, the
presumed Republican nominee for president, has a better chance of
winning the general election than his likely Democratic opponent,
Hillary Clinton.

He cited Trump's ability to hold and control attention in the
press as a key advantage.

"I think to be honest with you, I think he's more likely to win
at this point than Clinton," Sullivan said. "I can't prove that.
That's my instinct at this point, because he owns the narrative."

He also noted that Trump is less interested in policy than in
power, and this might hold some of his appeal for the American
people.

Sullivan said:

He's really, really interested in the wielding of his own power.
And that's not the American way. It's not a democratic way of
being. It's an anti-democratic notion of being. And I think
there's also an element in the culture in which Washington is
viewed as entirely broken. And therefore they want to blow it up
and use this guy to blow it up.

He continued:

I think that at the root of this is a very un-American desire to
abolish self-government. To say, "OK, we live in such a divided,
fractured, polarized society, we can't really solve our own
problems through our traditional constitutional processes. We'll
elect this tyrant and he will just do it somehow."